"One of the questions that I have is how is someone that is suffering from a mental health crisis like that...where along the line outside of law enforcement has that person been failed?"

Two of the officers involved, Gary Brown and Supreme Jones, have been placed on administrative leave. Neither of them, according to WBAL, had been involved in a shooting before.

"On any given day, police officers are forced to make split-second, life-or-death decisions, and this footage makes that very clear," Gene Ryan, president of the Fraternal Order of Police, Lodge Three, said in a statement.

"We support Officers Jones and Brown and commend them on their actions as they did what was necessary to protect the lives of many others, as well as their own."